this Article is actually in favor of Nick Gordon, but still a very interesting read (Although long)
There are many more questions than answers, and obviously he isn't in police custody, so
he either got away with it, or didn't do it.
QuoteThe Brown and Houston families have not always seen eye-to-eye on their mutual tragedy but they share a suspicion that Gordon had something to do with it. He was explicitly barred from attending her funeral in Georgia on Aug. 1 and her burial in New Jersey next to her mother on Aug 3.
Gordon's Florida lawyer, Jose Baez, issued a statement late Friday denouncing the lawsuit as "slanderous and meritless" and a "fictitious assault" against Gordon, but declined to elaborate Tuesday. (Gordon has been living with his mother in Florida.)
"It's shameful that such baseless allegations have been presented publicly," the statement said.
What are the major questions raised by the lawsuit?
What was in this "toxic cocktail"?
Was it an actual cocktail or is that just a metaphor? And how did Gordon allegedly give it to her? Why would she take it willingly, since the lawsuit asserts that the cocktail was preceded by a 30-minute knock-down-drag-out fight between the two in which Gordon allegedly screamed at her that she was a "whore" and a "bitch," and accused her of cheating.
"Then everything abruptly became quiet," the lawsuit says. "Upon information and belief, (Gordon) gave Bobbi Kristina a toxic cocktail rendering her unconscious and then put her face down in a tub of cold water causing her to suffer brain damage."
The hearse containing the casket of Bobbi Kristina
The hearse containing the casket of Bobbi Kristina Brown leaves funeral service at St. James United Methodist Church on August 1, 2015 in Alpharetta, Ga. (Photo: Paras Griffin/ Getty Images)
Halperin says the latter part of this scenario fits with his theory of what happened to Bobbi Kristina, who had been regularly using drugs and alcohol for days, according to his investigation. He believes that when she fell unconscious that day, her companions panicked, dumped in her cold water and slapped her to try and revive her. It's a common strategy among addicts, he says. And the lawsuit says Gordon "began to slap her saying, 'wake up' while performing CPR between slaps."
What is the significance of the dust pan?
The lawsuit says that "interestingly," a dust pan was found in the bottom of the bathtub, but it doesn't explain why this household item would be interesting or what it was doing in a bathtub.
Was Nick Gordon spying on Bobbi Kristina?
The lawsuit says that Gordon returned home at 6 a.m. on Jan. 31 after an "all-night cocaine and drinking binge." He then "reviewed camera footage of Bobbi Kristina and listened to her conversations." What camera footage? Inside the townhouse or outside? How did he listen to her conversations? Does this footage show anything useful, like what happened to Bobbi Kristina? The lawsuit doesn't say.
Lawsuit start of big trouble for Nick Gordon
Who was the "female guest" in the townhouse that day?
The lawsuit says that the argument between Gordon and Bobbi Kristina started in the kitchen, moved to the living room and then to the master bedroom. After he placed her in the tub, he came out of the bedroom wearing different clothes than when he went in.
"Afterward he got in bed, laid his head on female guests's ankle and stated, 'Now I want a pretty little white girl like you.'"
Halperin believes this female guest might be Danyela Bradley, the girlfriend of Max Lomas, a friend to both Gordon and Bobbi Kristina, who was at the townhouse that day and helped try to revive Bobbi Kristina, according Holloway, his lawyer at the time.
Bobbi Kristina Brown's friend breaks silence
Who actually found Bobbi Kristina?
Fifteen minutes after Gordon came out of the master bedroom, a "person" at the townhouse went inside the bedroom to check on Bobbi Kristina and found her face down in the bathtub. "She was unresponsive, unconscious, her mouth was swollen and another tooth was hanging loosely from her mouth."
Who was this person? The lawsuit doesn't say.
What did Gordon do after she was found?
The lawsuit says the "very first thing (Gordon) did was let the cold water out of the bathtub and later shouted, 'Clean up, clean up,' " while "others" began mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to no avail. Who were these other people? The lawsuit doesn't say.
Halperin predicts Baez, who successfully defended Casey Anthony on a charge of killing her baby, might find this lawsuit against his client helpful.
"I think Baez will have a field day with this," he says. "(The conservator) keeps digging themselves deeper and deeper. Good luck proving this was a lethal cocktail, because she had been drinking and doing drugs in the days and hours leading up to (being found).
"I have extreme skepticism at this point. It seems not plausible."
